On 08/12/2015 08:30, Brian-Gaff wrote:
The setting up of dolby was its downfall as tapes were all over the place
in their sensitivity and headroom crush effects,

Our casette deck has a "learn" mode - before doing a recording you tell
it you're going to, and it writes some patterns on the tape and reads
them back to get the best settings.

It's a shame we really want it for all those old recordings we can't get
any more!

Andy